 November 26, 2016 - 8:10am | Listenning to the radio in my new State of Maine is so much fun. The radio stations here lean toward rock while the ones in Boston lean toward pop. I am happy to announce that I have not heard one Justin Beeber song since moving back to Maine! Of course i regularly listen to the classic rock station so this skews the opportunity for me to hear the Beebs but too bad. At any rate as I drive around Maine I keep thinking this song that is playing is an awesome inspiration for a SF adventure. Take "Bad Company" for example, not just the title but the lyrics inspire a corporate/mercenary complicated adventure where allies may just turn out to be enemies at some point. Fun fun! "Highway to Hell"- classic ACDC and probably very easy to write as an adventure. PCs must run a gauntlet with a vehicle from point A to point B lots of opposition. Now think about pop song: How about a Hall and Oats classic "Your Kiss is on my List" just doesn't grab you for an adventure title. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
November 26, 2016 - 8:34am | Other classics: Smoke on the Water Money for Nothing Hotel California (except you'd change the location to Pregular or Cassidine or etc.) Back in Black Born to be Wild Thunderstruck Run to the Hills Living on a Prayer Eye of the Tiger (Eye of the Dragon? Eye of the Osprey?) House of the Rising Sun Stargazer The Final Countdown Brothers in Arms The Boys are Back in Town Sympathy for the Devil Bark at the Moon Whiplash Heavens on Fire I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
November 26, 2016 - 9:36am | Dont Fear the Reaper Against the Solar Wind And the Cradle will Rock Another One Bites the Star Dust All She Wants to do is Dance Astronomy Domine Back for More Back in the Saddle Back Seat of my Hovercar Bad Medicine Bad Moon Rising Bad to the Bone Badlands Bark at the Moon Behind the LInes Mega City Nights Blister in the Sun Broken Wings Burnin Sky Captain Fantastic Carry on My Warward Son Cherry Bomb City of Angels (devils, mercenaries, heroes, etc) Cold as Ice Crossfire Crossroads The Crystal Ship Cry for a Shadow (Shack?) Dancing in the Dark Destroyer Diamonds and Rust (Diamonds and Dust?) Diary of a Madman Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Dirty Water Devil Inside Dirty Work Double Vision Drift Away Escape Every Breathe [you take]- survive a dying ship Eye in the Sky Every Rose has its Thorns Find Your Way Back Flight of Icarus Fly by Night Gallows Pole God Save the Queen- a Royal Marines Adventure Goodnight Saigon (Goodnight ___________enter Frontier location) Hand of Fate Harvester of Sorrow Have a Drink on Me Heavy Metal- a Ground Hawks adventure aka Hammer's Slammers style with armored vehciles Hollywood Nights (Starplay Nights) Hypnotized ( a psych-social adventure) I Drink Alone (possibly a collection of You Meet in a Spacer Bar adventure hooks) I Wont Back Down (Wont Back Down or No Backing Down) If Looks Could Kill In a Big Country (In a Big Frontier) In the Air Tonight Into the Fire Invincible Invisible Sun Its a Long Way to the Top Jailbreak Juke Box Hero (Holovid Hero) King of Pain Knockin on Heaven's Door Let it Ride Lay it on the Line Life in the Fast Lane Little Lies I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 November 26, 2016 - 10:52am | I do prefer listening to 80s music when playing SF or D&D and have been inspired to write an adventure based on a handful of those tunes. None come to me at the moment as an example, but I did want to touch on this --- Take "Bad Company" for example Bad Company is a great example for an adventure that simply is not moving along at a good pace. Seriously, just listen to any of their tunes...I mean REALLY listen to them. They all follow the same pattern ending halfway through the tune and the other half is merely the lead singer vocalizing endlessly. Take "Shooting Star" for example (just the first one that popped into my head, considering we're talking STAR Frontiers  ) --- I just went to YouTube and found it is nearly a 6½ minute tune. At roughly 3½ minutes, following the guitar solo, "Johnny died in his bed, with a bottle of whiskey & sleeping tablets by his head."That's it, the story is over. Yet the remainder of the song is additional three minutes --- that's THREE minutes, A.K.A. the other half of the song --- let me repeat that again because they were quite successful with that same pattern: three minutes worth of "Don't you know that you are a shooting star, don't you know, yeah, don't you know-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa don't you don't you don't you don't you don't you don't you know shooting star-ar-ar-ar blah blah blah shooting star yeah yeah yeah shooting star." The sad fact that they became successful using this method is the reason why other completely pointless tunes such as "Who Let the Dogs Out" became so popular. |
November 26, 2016 - 11:43am | Also noteworthy, if you're listening to 80s music while playing 80s RPG, you're not getting the full experience unless you're listening to it on vinyl or cassette tape.  |
November 26, 2016 - 2:20pm | Also noteworthy, if you're listening to 80s music while playing 80s RPG, you're not getting the full experience unless you're listening to it on vinyl or cassette tape. dont own a record player anymore and even though vinyl is selling in stores, remember seeing it in Borders books this year I haven't bothered to buy any. I recommend simply taking the titles of rock songs as inspiration for adventure titles. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
November 26, 2016 - 4:39pm | Run through the Jungle Runaround San Fransican Nights (Cassidine Nights) Seek and Destroy Shakedown Cruise Shootin Star Shot in the Dark Sin City The Sky is Crying Space Cowboy Space Station #5 Starship Trooper Stranger in a Strange Land Taking Care of Business Thunder Road War Pigs Wheel in the Sky I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 December 2, 2016 - 8:09pm | https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?210156-34-Firefly-plots-based-on-elton-john-song-titles https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?485379-Firefly-30-Episodes-Named-After-Iron-Maiden-Songs https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?466951-Firefly-30-Episodes-Inspired-By-Punk-Songs Firefly, of course, is about a crew in a tramp freighter, and just about all of the characters are haunted by their pasts. Sounds pretty Star Frontiers-ish to me. |
